HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
THE THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2022
|
Rep. David A. Tarnas, Chair |
|
Rep. Patrick Pihana Branco, Vice Chair |
|
Rep. Sonny Ganaden |
Rep. Dee Morikawa |
|
Rep. Bertrand Kobayashi |
Rep. Takashi Ohno |
|
Rep. Sam Satoru Kong |
Rep. Bob McDermott |
NOTICE OF HEARING
|
DATE: |
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 |
|
TIME: |
8:30 am |
|
PLACE: |
VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE Conference Room 430 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
THE STATE CAPITOL IS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC DURING THE ONGOING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Please note that the committee members will participate remotely via videoconference.
Click here to submit testimony and to testify remotely.
A live stream link of all House Standing Committee meetings will be available online
shortly before the scheduled start time.
Click here for the live stream of this meeting via YouTube.
Click here for select hearings broadcast live on ‘Ōlelo Community Media for cable TV.
A G E N D A
|
RELATING TO AQUATIC RESOURCES. Authorizes the imposition of a criminal fine for violations involving aquatic resources. Establishes a tiered administrative fine system for each specimen of aquatic life taken, killed, or injured. Establishes a criminal fine structure on a per-specimen basis for violations involving aquatic life. Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to recommend community service that benefits the resource damaged when a person is ordered to perform community service in lieu of a fine.
|
WAL, JHA, FIN |
|
|
RELATING TO THRILL CRAFT. Updates the definition of thrill craft, as used in the state boating law, and includes within the term surfboards using a motorized hydrofoil.
|
WAL, CPC, FIN |
|
|
RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Prohibits the use of important agricultural lands and lands with class A productivity ratings for waste disposal.
|
WAL, CPC, FIN |
|
|
RELATING TO SOIL CLASSIFICATIONS. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to conduct a study of the suitability of the State's current soil overall (master) productivity rating system classified by the Land Study Bureau's detailed land classification. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
|
WAL, AGR, FIN |
|
|
RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY. Requires an applicant seeking to register more than 10 acres of land with either the land court or the bureau of conveyances to provide a sworn affidavit that the community where the land is located has been given notice of the applicant's intended use of the land and provide a copy of the notice.
|
WAL, JHA, FIN |
|
|
RELATING TO LAND LIABILITY. Creates strict liability for an owner of land with a twenty per cent or more slope for damage or injury to down-slope property and persons from falling rocks, debris, and landslides originating from the owner's property.
|
WAL, JHA, FIN |
|
|
RELATING TO SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREAS. Expands exclusions from the definition of "development" as it applies to special management areas to reduce the need for special management area permits for certain activities.
|
WAL, JHA, FIN |
|
|
RELATING TO SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREAS. Exempts public facilities from review and permitting requirements applicable to special management areas by amending the definition of "development".
|
WAL, CPC, FIN |
|
|
RELATING TO DISTRICT BOUNDARY AMENDMENTS. Proposed HD1: Authorizes the appropriate county land use decision-making authority to determine district boundary amendments involving land areas over fifteen acres but less than or equal to fifty acres if the county has adopted an ordinance that meets certain requirements, including the requirement that the district boundary amendment is necessary to produce housing, sixty per cent of which shall be reserved for occupants whose incomes do not exceed one hundred forty per cent of the area median income. (PROPOSED HD1)
|
WAL, CPC, FIN |
|
|
RELATING TO LAND USE DISTRICT BOUNDARIES. Establishes a boundary review committee to render decisions on district boundary disputes brought before the land use commission.
|
WAL, JHA, FIN |
|
|
RELATING TO WAIAKEA PENINSULA REDEVELOPMENT. Establishes the Waiakea peninsula redevelopment district and planning committee for the redevelopment of public lands on the Waiakea peninsula. Establishes the Waiakea peninsula redevelopment district revolving fund. Makes an appropriation. Sunsets June 30, 2032.
|
WAL, JHA, FIN |
The proposed HD1 is available on the Legislature's Web site: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov.
DECISION MAKING TO FOLLOW
Persons wishing to offer comments should submit testimony at least 24 hours prior to the hearing. Testimony received after this time will be stamped late and left to the discretion of the chair to consider. While every effort will be made to incorporate all testimony received, materials received on the day of the hearing or improperly identified or directed, may not be processed.
Testimony submitted will be placed on the legislative website. This public posting of testimony on the website should be considered when including personal information in your testimony.
The chair may institute a per-testifier time limit.
Committees meeting in the morning must adjourn prior to the day's Floor Session. Therefore, due to time constraints, not all testifiers may be provided an opportunity to offer verbal comments. However, remote testitfiers' written submissions will be considered by the committee.
Please refrain from profanity or uncivil behavior. Violations may result in ejection from the hearing without the ability to rejoin.
The House will not be responsible for bad connections on the testifier's end.
For general help navigating the committee hearing process, please contact the Public Access Room at (808) 587-0478 or [email protected].
The cable TV broadcast and/or live stream of this meeting will include closed captioning. If you require other auxiliary aids or services to participate in the public hearing process (i.e. interpretive services (oral or written) or ASL interpreter) or are unable to submit testimony via the website due to a disability, please contact the committee clerk at least 24 hours prior to the hearing so that arrangements can be made.
Click here for a complete list of House Guidelines for public testimony.
FOR AMENDED NOTICES: Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are bolded.
For more information, please contact the Committee Clerk at 586-8513
|
|
|
________________________________________ Rep. David A. Tarnas Chair |
|
|
|
|